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Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass (May 21, 1924 – March 8, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer. Cass is best known for originating the role of Agnes Gooch in the 1956 stage and 1958 film versions of Auntie Mame, for which she won a Tony Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Peggy Cass. Actress: Auntie Mame. Mary Margaret Cass was born May 21, 1924, in Boston, Massachusetts. After three years in the Cambridge Latin School drama club without one speaking part, she moved to New York, where she worked as a secretary, telephone operator, advertising solicitor and model.
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Actress: Auntie Mame. Mary Margaret Cass was born May 21, 1924, in Boston, Massachusetts. After three years in the Cambridge Latin School drama club without one speaking part, she moved to New York, where she worked as a secretary, telephone operator, advertising solicitor and model.
- Actress
- March 8, 1999
- May 21, 1924
THE GRAVEL-VOICED character actress Peggy Cass won a Tony award for her portrayal of Miss Gooch, the adenoidal, frumpy secretary who in taking her flamboyant employer's advice to "live a little"...
Mar 12, 1999 · Peggy Cass, a comic actress who appeared in many movies and Broadway shows, died Monday in Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. She was 74. Cass appeared in dozens of films and stage productions but is perhaps best known for her role as Agnes Gooch, the secretary in the stage show "Mame" and its movie adaptation "Auntie Mame."
Mar 10, 1999 · Peggy Cass, a brassy-voiced comedian best known for her portrayal of the pregnant, unwed secretary in ''Auntie Mame,'' died on Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan.
Peggy Cass, who won a 1957 Tony Award for her portrayal of Agnes Gooch in "Auntie Mame" on Broadway and later reprised the role in an Oscar-nominated film performance, has died at 74. She died of...
